On 25/09/20 at 12:01 -0400, Zack Weinberg wrote: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 8:24 AM Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 24/09/20 at 16:41 -0400, Zack Weinberg wrote: > > > I'm managing the long-overdue release of Autoconf 2.70, we just put > > > out a second beta and I am thinking that it would be interesting to do > > > a Debian archive rebuild with it and see what breaks. I was advised > > > to contact you. > > > > > > The release announcement is at > > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2020-09/msg00006.html and > > > > What I would need is a custom autoconf package, either in Debian > > experimental or in a private repo, that would act as a drop-in > > replacement for the current autoconf package. > > I have prepared source and binary packages of the beta autoconf and > uploaded them to my personal website. > https://research.owlfolio.org/scratchpad/debian/ should work as an apt > source line, and the packages should cleanly upgrade from autoconf in > unstable. Please let me know if there are problems, it's been a long > time since I needed to use apt-ftparchive. > > I believe that these packages would be suitable for experimental, > and/or as a basis for the eventual upload of 2.70 to unstable, but I > don't have the privileges to upload anything to the Debian archive. > I'm cc:ing the Debian maintainer of autoconf -- Ben, if you would like > to check and adopt my work, please feel free. Hi Zack, See http://qa-logs.debian.net/2020/09/26.ac270/ You'll find there: 00cmp.ac270.only-fails-with-ac270.txt : list of packages that failed with autoconf 2.70, but succeeded with 2.69 00res.ac270.only-failures.txt : same list, but annotated with an indication about the failure. 00cmp.ac270.txt: full list comparing the result with vanilla unstable 00res.ac270.txt: full list of build results with autoconf 2.70 Let me know if you need something else! Lucas
